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A Door Marked Seven "Book One": A middle grade fantasy about stolen words, hidden rooms, and the courage to choose
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Series: The Inkkeepers, Book 1
FantasyMystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twelve-year-old Tom Ashby has lived for nine years inside Ravenhollow Library, hidden among dust, locked shelves, and rules he never fully understood. Words do not behave for Tom. On paper, they crawl, twist, and bite. So he counts instead: keys, raindrops, footsteps, anything safer than reading.
Then a torn page falls from the chimney.
The page carries his mother's warning, a name no one wanted him to know, and a path into the hidden Archive beneath Durham Cathedral - a place where children's fear, hunger, anger, questions, and even voices can be removed, stored, and labelled in glass jars.
The Archive calls it mercy.
Tom begins to suspect it is something else.
With the help of sharp-minded Eliza, joke-armoured Hal, wounded Martin Brennan, and the dangerous Inspector Rook, Tom must uncover the truth behind Room 7, the blue chair, and the false word hidden beneath the Archive's kindness.
But every act of magic costs something. A memory. A smell. A piece of home.
And if Tom wants to save the stolen parts of other children, he must first learn that pain is not always the enemy - and that no one gets to choose for him again.
A darkly magical middle grade fantasy for readers who love mysterious libraries, dangerous books, found family, and stories about children reclaiming their voices.
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